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Robert B. Parker Quotes

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Robert B. Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1932 - January 18, 2010

Topics

Life World My Life Choice Important

As much as people were asking me and everybody else on the show constantly if Jon Snow is alive or dead, I think, really, in their heart of hearts, they didn't actually want to know. For us, it felt very important to maintain that secrecy for the fans, and we worked very hard to make sure that worked out.

Jeremy Podeswa

Snow Heart People Me Think Alive

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

John Gurdon

Work Hope Value Support Research

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Robert Martin

Learning Age Responsibility Student

I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.

Angie Martinez

Hate I Am I Can Anything Going Give

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

Jeff Lindsay

Life Business Step Someone Back Own

Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?

John Ridley

Love Simple People Long Choose Why

I was in a rap group when I was younger and quickly realized that wasn't going to work out for me, but my passion for hip hop and the culture never left; it only grew.

Rob Stone

Work Passion Culture Me Group Never

I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis?

Roz Chast

Children Reading Think Sex Mean Get

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Liza Minnelli

Love Parents Given Amount Enormous

As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I'd show up at a meeting and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, you speak English! That's so cool.' They didn't really know what to do with me.

Jason Momoa

Work God Me Cool Speak Thought

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

Jason Scott Lee

Conflict Island Royal Class Easter

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

Nature Reflection Creative Three See